{"product_id":"9781590515440","title":"My Escape: An Autobiography","description":"This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married four times, bore three children, underwent several illegal abortions, became a writer after she turned forty, and a feminist in her fifties. Groult chronicles her experiences and her intellectual developments through successive phases—as an obedient child, an awkward and bookish adolescent, and a submissive wife—until finally becoming a liberated novelist.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Here, she recounts the childhood trips she spent with her family, Paris during the occupation, her marriages, motherhood, and her continuous fight for women’s rights. At ninety-one years old, she concludes that she has been, and still is, a happy woman—lucky to have captured her freedoms, one by one, paying for them, delighting in them, and loving them. Sexy, chatty, and full of shrewd insight, \u003ci\u003eMy Escape\u003c\/i\u003e covers her years of struggle and success—as a daughter, lover, writer, wife, mother, and reluctant socialite—and draws a portrait of the role of French women in the twentieth century.","brand":"Other Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134395465968,"sku":"9781590515440","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590515440_p0.jpg?v=1763810579","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590515440","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}